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I can only imagine what it must have been like to sit in a movie theater and experience the first “talkie” or later the first “color” movie — The Jazz Singer, Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz… Both breakthroughs profoundly advanced the technology side of the movie business such that storytellers could also advance their craft. With greater technology came better, more accessible stories, characters and spectacles to behold. Actors could integrate unique voices, accents, and the subtlety of …
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In case you haven’t heard of it, the Hollywood Blacklist is an annual list of the ten best unproduced screenplays as voted on by development executives and assistants at production companies across the industry. A relatively recent phenomenon, the list was started by former Leonardo DiCaprio development exec Franklin Leonard out of frustration at having read so many awful scripts. Finally, he sent out a query to his peers to respond with what they believed were the ten best unproduced scripts out …
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